Testing Resistance & Reform Spring (TRRS) – Action Network

Widespread resistance to the overuse and misuse of standardized testing is exploding across the nation. Testing Resistance & Reform Spring is an alliance of organizations that have come together to expand these efforts in order to win local, state and national policy changes: Less testing, more learning. Please Join Us. Be Involved! Spread the word…

The U.S. can do a much better job evaluating children, teachers and schools. That’s why protests against standardized testing misuse and overuse are exploding across the nation. Testing Resistance & Reform Spring (TRRS) seeks to ensure that assessment contributes to all students having access to a high-quality education. Our alliance unites around three goals:

• Stop high-stakes use of standardized tests;
• Reduce the number of standardized exams, saving time and money for real learning; and
• Replace multiple-choice tests with performance-based assessments and evidence of learning from students’ ongoing classwork.

We support a range of public education and mobilizing tactics, including community meetings, boycotts, opt-out campaigns, rallies, petition drives and legislation. TRRS will help activists link up, communicate and learn from one another. This will build a stronger national movement to overhaul assessment policies.

Our new, action-oriented website — http://tinyurl.com/TestingReformSpring — provides resources for the campaign’s success. A mapping tool makes it easy for parents, students, teachers and community organizers to post and find local actions anywhere in the United States. (For your event to be visible on the map and searchable by zip code, you must use this link/page – and be sure to use the red box on the right, not the drop down menu at the top of the page.)

The website also includes downloadable fact sheets, how-to-do-it guides, and much more – see the links from our Mission Statement at https://actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring.

We invite activists to use our site and for groups to join TRRS as Partners; for more information, see https://actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring/files/1215/download.